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Each year, Year 6 teachers are requested to transfer a teacher assessment level for ICT.
Here, Julie Leigh, Co-ordinating Adviser for ICT, shares with us some partnership headline figures…

Each summer Year 6 teachers are expected to transfer a teacher assessment level for ICT. This year the results below are based on returns for over 6,335 pupils which represents almost every primary school.

Congratulations to all those teachers who fulfilled their ICT Assessment responsibility this year.  Only two primary schools failed to return their assessments and, as all statisticians know, the larger the sample the more reliable the data.

Last year there was an apparent 2.8% drop in the number of children achieving Level 4+. This year we have improved on 2003 figures by 1.23% and on 2004 by 4.07%. I have included, for your information, the 2003 and 2004 figures first published in Ox-on-line in 2004, by way of a comparison.

 

 

2003

 

2004

 

2005

Partnership

Total

% L4+

% L5+

 

Total

% L4+

% L5+

 

Total

% L4+

% L5+

Abingdon

619

79.18

8.69

 

589

82.34

18.00

 

658

83.13

17.78

Banbury

505

72.08

10.3

 

537

78.21

17.13

 

573

78.01

17.98

Bicester

358

78.21

16.2

 

521

85.6

16.89

 

482

89.00

17.84

Burford

118

90.68

23.73

 

126

81.75

14.29

 

131

81.68

14.50

Carterton

172

58.72

1.16

 

164

62.8

15.24

 

175

83.43

5.14

Cherwell

 

 

 

 

295

83.39

24.41

 

297

77.44

21.89

Chiltern Edge/ Sonning Common

78

78.21

12.82

 

79

92.41

7.59

 

83

87.95

21.69

Chipping Norton

232

79.31

17.24

 

224

81.25

15.18

 

277

75.81

29.96

Cumnor

171

78.95

14.04

 

176

75

16.48

 

155

80.00

14.19

Didcot

327

76.62

20.5

 

399

75.19

10.78

 

366

81.42

18.31

Eynsham

138

89.13

20.29

 

139

63.31

23.74

 

138

93.48

21.01

Faringdon

107

77.57

18.69

 

140

75.71

20.00

 

169

82.84

27.81

Headington

 

 

 

 

166

54.82

6.63

 

162

64.20

6.79

Henley

118

90.91

37.5

 

92

88.04

22.83

 

122

85.25

19.67

Isis

 

 

 

 

241

58.92

9.54

 

224

61.61

9.38

Kidlington

103

72.82

18.45

 

209

86.12

22.97

 

188

83.51

20.21

Oxford SE (EiC)

 

 

 

 

293

46.76

1.37

 

341

54.55

3.81

Thame

253

81.82

16.6

 

229

83.41

18.78

 

247

86.64

24.29

Wallingford

189

84.66

12.17

 

183

81.42

21.86

 

175

85.14

12.57

Wantage

233

78.97

24.03

 

295

82.03

27.12

 

316

92.41

34.18

Warriner

161

80.12

11.8

 

173

85.55

26.59

 

191

90.05

24.08

Watlington

120

80.83

11.67

 

92

85.87

15.22

 

91

93.41

15.38

Wheatley

210

86.19

24.76

 

178

82.02

20.22

 

186

95.70

22.58

Witney

293

74.74

12.29

 

345

82.32

21.45

 

332

85.24

17.77

Woodcote

78

85.9

14.1

 

91

75.82

14.29

 

104

91.35

22.12

Woodstock

92

93.48

19.57

 

106

89.62

16.98

 

152

88.82

30.92

Grand Total

4675

80.41

16.66

 

6082

77.57

17.18

 

6335

81.64

18.83

As you will see from the table there is considerable variation in these assessments with results ranging from 55%  of pupils at Level 4 and above to 96% of pupils achieving Level 4 or above.

The Secondary Consultants have ensured that Heads of ICT have received pupils’ Year 6 Teacher Assessment levels by providing each secondary school ICT department with a CD with the ICT data and Fischer Family Trust predicted targets for ICT GCSE based on their English, Maths and Science KS2 SATS results. This data has been used as a starting point when setting ICT targets within the department.

Liaison with feeder primary schools is paramount. It is important for secondary schools to understand why pupils with Level 3 are in need of intervention programmes. Have they received the same entitlement as the child who has achieved Level 5? Is the Level 5 child an average ability child who has received his/her full entitlement in the primary school with a gifted teacher or is he/she a gifted pupil or is it both?

Baseline Assessment

More than half of Oxfordshire primary schools also completed a summary return for pupils in Year 2, 4 and 6. (For simplicity’s sake Year 6 data only has been illustrated below.)   The ICT Team have analysed the results since 2001 and we use the analysis to inform our work, including the production of resources to support specific areas of the ICT National Curriculum.

This year the data suggests that in the drive to embed effective use of ICT across the curriculum some schools may not now be delivering the full ICT Curriculum. We have seen significant drops in the following areas:

·         Finding things out - Handling information

Ø      48%   - sort records in a datafile (55% in 2003)

Ø      39%  -  set up a database and enter data (52% in 2003)

·         Modelling

Ø      62% - explore a prepared spreadsheet (71% in 2003)

Ø      60%  - enter a formula in a spreadsheet (66% in 2003)

As primary schools move to embed ICT across the curriculum, our experience in Oxfordshire would seem to be widespread. The Primary Strategy has also recognised that there is a serious need to remind schools of the ICT NC requirements, including the progression required to develop ICT capability.

Currently a small number of Local Authorities, including Oxfordshire, have been asked by the DfES to work on an ICT Progression framework. The framework will be available towards the summer in both paper and electronic formats and will include clear advice on the following areas:

·         Progression through the strands

·         Mapping across subjects showing where capability can be developed

·         Suggestions of contexts where explicit ICT capability could be appropriately developed in each year group

·         Year group descriptions – which will make it explicit what needs to be delivered in year 3, for example.

·         Transition all the way from FS through to Year 7

·         Assessment materials

Finally it is important that we remember - for a child entering school now 95% of jobs that will be available when they leave school have not yet been developed. As well as being ICT literate students will need to be flexible and adaptive problem-solvers in all aspects of the curriculum.

 J Leigh

Co-ordinating Adviser – ICT Specialist

Editor’s note:  an ideal opportunity for Secondary colleagues to meet with their feeder Primary Schools counterparts is the Primary ICT Co-ordinators’ meeting in each of the school partnerships.  In Term 4, the meetings are scheduled at:

Bicester Community College

Tuesday 21st February

The Blake Primary School

Wednesday 22nd February

Ladygrove Park Primary School

Wednesday 22nd February

Cricket Road

Thursday 23rd February

The Grange School

Thursday 23rd February


In Term 6 the meetings will be at:

Cricket Road Centre

Tuesday 6th June

Queens Dyke School, Witney

Wednesday 7th June

Bicester Community College

Wednesday 7th June

Text Box: This newsletter is produced by the Oxfordshire ICT Advisory Team.
We always welcome any articles from teachers sharing good ICT practice, including examples of children’s work. If you have any then please send them to:
The ICT Centre, 
Cricket Road Centre,
Cricket Road
Oxford OX4 3DW
tel:        01865 428034
fax:       01865 428030
 
e-mail: sds.ict.education@ oxfordshire.gov.uk

 
 
 

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Thursday 8th June

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Thursday 8th June

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